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scoosh

scoosh is the alternative spelling of skoosh.

Meaning of skoosh

Noun (1)

skoosh (plural skooshes)

  1. (Scotland, informal) A squirt (of liquid).
    • But Mrs Strain ducked and dodged and weaved, keeping the bucket steady between her feet and managing to give the two or three cats running about the place a skoosh of milk straight from the udder into their mouth.2002, Hugh Robinson, Back Across the Fields of Yesterday, →ISBN
  2. (Scotland, informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
    • After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.2013, Joe Pieri, The Big Men

Noun (2)

skoosh (plural skooshes)

  1. (informal) A smidge, a small amount.
    • […] his wife, who might have outweighed him by forty pounds, wore a cut-off sweatshirt over a red blouse, and what seemed to be men's Levis, cut with a bit more than "a skoosh more room," as the ads say.1995, James C. Schaap, In the Silence There are Ghosts: A Novel, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN

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Forms of scoosh

Noun
pluralscooshes
Verb
third-person singular presentscooshes
present participlescooshing
past participlescooshed
pastscooshed

Questions about scoosh

What is scoosh the alternative spelling of?
Scoosh is the alternative spelling of skoosh.

Words near scoosh in the dictionary

  1. scoopula
  2. scoopulas
  3. scoopwheel
  4. scoopwheels
  5. scoopy
  6. scoosh
  7. scoot
  8. scoot over
  9. scoot up
  10. scootberries
  11. scootberry

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